A tale told over four seasons starting in autumn when Juno a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota discovers shes pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals contacts them tells her dad and step-mother and carries on with school. The chosen parents upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back the other meticulous and uptight) meet Juno sign papers and the year unfolds. Will Junos plan work can she improvise and what about Bleeker
Review
Juno MacGuff is a sarcastic cynical tomboyish teen played by Ellen Page in a fantastic perfectly tuned performance. After sortofspontaneous (but not really) sex with her best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera of 'Superbad') Juno receives an unwanted packagea pregnancy. Woops.
Juno decides to give her baby to an affluent couple Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner). All seems well at first but it will be a bumpy road until birth.
I can spend hours gushing about how terrific a movie 'Juno' is but I'm not really the greatest writer on the planet so I'll just express the fact that 'Juno' has a strange effect on you. After seeing it I almost felt as if I would walk out of the theater and see Juno MacGuff just standing there as if she were a regular living breathing teenager. That's how good Page is. In fact every single performance in the film is absolutely tremendous. I liked how Allison Janney's stepmom character isn't turned into a whiny shedemon like most formula stepmoms instead she's far more friendlier (if a little unsure of Juno's odd ways) than we would ever expect. And J.K. Simmons finally gets a role where he isn't a total jerk instead he's a sensitive father who truly cares for his wacky daughter.
The soundtrack is awesome I'll be buying it as soon as possible. The wait for the DVD will be truly agonizing but worth it in the end. We can see the chain reactions here when a group of truly ambitious individuals (such as Jason Reitman Diablo Cody and Ellen Page) get together and make a movie such as this. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
I give 'Juno' my highest recommendation possible.
Sweeeeet man. 44